Santana, 22, went 2 for 3 with a walk, a triple and two runs scored out of the leadoff spot in the Rock Cats’ 10-3 home loss to Trenton.

Sano went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts and some good defensive work at third base. Rosario, a second baseman, went 1 for 3 with a double and drove in three runs.

However, Santana, a switch hitter, did the most to justify the rave review Twins general manager Terry Ryan had given the Dominican a day earlier.

“Run? He can fly. Throw? He’s got a bazooka,” Ryan said of Santana. “Switch hit. He can bunt. Range. You name it — he’s got a box full of tools.”

Ryan also spoke highly of Santana’s character.

“He’s about as good a human as we’ve got,” Ryan said. “Good teammate. Accountable. Cares. We’ve got a guy here that’s a good player, has good skills, has good makeup. Now we’ve got to tighten him up. He’s got to tighten himself up, too.”

That last comment referred to Santana’s team-high 31 errors and lack of walks (21 in 486 at-bats).

“The one thing that concerns me about that is his plate discipline,” Ryan said. “That’s disappointing to me more than the errors. If you’re going to be the type of player that he is going to be, he has got to get on base. He is not a power guy at all, even though he can hit a ball a long way. He’s strong. He’s 5-10, 5-11, about 180 (pounds), but he’s deceivingly strong.”

As for the errors, Ryan pinned most of those on concentration lapses while allowing for Santana’s above-average range.

“Just immature, young, unforced errors,” Ryan said. “Some of his errors are plays you would not expect him to maybe even get to. But also there are errors, and I’ve seen a couple of them … first inning, he made an error on just a routine ground ball that he didn’t seem like he was ready for the first pitch. That can’t happen.”

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